Wetland surface area, both coastal and inland, declined by about 35% between 1970 and 2015. Globally, the rate of loss ...

All that traffic means a wealth of bird varieties stopping in Western New York to rest and eat, joining the plethora of ...

The Meghalaya High Court on Thursday (February 27) registered a suo moto PIL to ensure that the Ramsar Convention wetland sites within the State are properly maintained and ensured.

Environmentalists in Jersey are calling for further protection of the island's Ramsar Sites after they claim the wetlands are ...

Ramsar is an international convention that gives accreditation to areas that need protection because they are particularly ...

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The newly designated Ramsar sites include Sakkarakottai Bird Sanctuary and Therthangal Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu, Khecheopalri Wetland in Sikkim, and Udhwa Lake in Jharkhand. This marks a ...

Dumka: The Udhwa bird sanctuary in Sahibganj was on Saturday enlisted in the international ‘Ramsar convention sites', popularly known as ‘Ramsar sites', on the eve of the World Wetlands Day.

Two bird sanctuaries in Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district — Sakkarakottai and Therthangal — have been designated as Ramsar sites. With this, the State has 20 Ramsar sites and continues to ...

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the World Wetlands Day on Sunday, four more wetlands have got an international tag of Ramsar Convention sites, taking the total number of such globally recognised wetlands in ...

The former Wintergreen Ski Area closed 35 years ago but a plan for public hiking trails and other uses that will protect the property from development is being pursued by ...